Example sentences of "and showed [pers pn] the " in BNC.

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1 When surveyors started sizing up her land , ‘ I got my shotgun out and showed them the gate , ' she said .
2 I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth .
3 ‘ You can come twice for that , ’ she promised , and showed him the tip of her tongue .
4 Then she brought him her account book , which she had kept faithfully from the first day of opening her house , and showed him the state of things .
5 He gave him a document and showed him the photocopying room .
6 She took him to the far aisle and showed him the salt tablets .
7 The King took him into his barge and cried , ‘ Now I know the greatest heretic in Kent ’ and showed him the letters from Canterbury .
8 The captain followed the direction of the American boy 's pointing finger for a moment , then lifted his left wrist and showed him the dial of his watch .
9 One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy .
10 ‘ Rats , ’ I told him , but he opened the cover on the drain outside my back door and showed me the trap to stop rats climbing up .
11 He took me back to the past and showed me the future .
12 Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish .
13 A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards .
14 Reaching down under the counter he pulled out a flat bottle and showed me the label .
15 They made me very welcome , then gave me a clean towel and showed me the showers .
16 He nodded politely and showed me the palm of a gloved hand .
17 ‘ After the match , the chairman came in and showed me the other results and the league placings .
18 Only when the head of accounting ( ’ an ‘ acceptable ’ woman 's role ’ ) took her to one side and showed her the company 's payroll did she realise that while she was bringing in the most revenue , she was being paid the smallest salary .
19 In answer he turned the book and showed her the page .
20 He drove her to Burford and showed her the site of the car crash . ’
21 Pink took her to the garden and showed her the rose arch .
22 And showed you the right path to take ,
23 Mum was always thrifty , and able to stretch pennies to shillings ; once she proudly opened an old tea-caddy ( then utilised as a savings-bank ) and showed us the amount then accumulated : an unbelievable total of ten pounds .
24 As we were turning to follow his directions , he drew up his cuff and showed us the blue tattooed cross that all Copts have on the inside of their wrists .
25 Mr Rochester lifted the curtain , opened the secret door and showed us the little room .
26 Reflecting on the new and indeed unlikely scenario Collie Curran said : ‘ PJ McGowan came in three years ago and showed us the way ahead .
27 He broke the gun in half and showed us the cylinder filled with six red plastic capsules .
28 Walked in the lady said Oh right , you can can have a look round and showed us the rooms .
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